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Brandon Benitez

KRGV adds Brandon Benitez as new weekend sports anchor

July 8, 2021 by Veronica Villafañe

KRGV Channel 5 News has hired Brandon Benitez as its new weekend sports anchor.

He will also be reporting for the station’s 6 and 10 pm weeknight newscasts.

He arrives to the Rio Grande Valley ABC affiliate from California.

Benitez previously spent a year as weekend sports anchor and reporter at KHSL/KNVN Action News Now in Chico.

Before that, the Cal State Northridge graduate was a sports news associate at L.A. duopoly KCBS/KCAL from September 2018 to August 2019.

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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